Yelp.com is a helpful way to find and share reviews of local businesses, however, it has been alleged by business owners that the website has been practicing extortion. A Long Beach Veterinary hospital alleges that Yelp, offered to hide a bad review of the hospital for $300 a month. A Miami law firm, paired with a San Diego firm, is filing a class action suit against Yelp, with the help of dozens of business owners who may have also been wronged.
Technology changes the playing field and makes it difficult to create relationships where you trust what you read, particularly because you don’t know who wrote it, and what their sources are. Unless you’re reading an academic journal/scholarly article, a news publication with an accredited history, a government website, and maybe some other substantial sources, you can never really be sure.
There are a number of questions to be looked at; how can we judge what’s real and what’s not on the internet? What is our role in regulating in our minds what the websites to trust and not trust? Should these companies get away with fraudulent claims concerning entities such as businesses?
See http://www.breakinglegalnews.com/category/Class%20Action for more details.
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